Patriotism: Li Hongzhang and the Foreign Threat
In 1862, three of China’s most prominent [Read More...]
Writings
Banging the Grievance Drum
In today’s Christian Science Monitor comes a [Read More...]
Barbarians and Lao Wai: Trans-lingual negotiation and the clash of empires
What are the perils of trans-lingual negotiation? [Read More...]
The foolish old man who wanted to move mountains
Dave asked recently where the name [Read More...]
IHT: Wang Hui and China’s New New Left
Update 10/15/06: Wang is also the subject of a [Read More...]
This Date in History: Chairman Hua
Talk about your falls from grace: the sad and [Read More...]
A Historian’s review of Jet Li’s Fearless: Who was the real Huo Yuanjia 霍元甲？
(From the archives: with the release of Fearless [Read More...]
Confucianism and a Harmonious Society
On Richard Spencer’s excellent foreign [Read More...]
The Major Leaguer from Tianjin, China
One of the great time wasters, at least for me, [Read More...]
Sex in Shanghai
I passed by this reference on EastSouthWestNorth [Read More...]
One Country, Two Prices
From the excellent people over at [Read More...]